Last Week’s WWE NXT Rating Spikes To 11-Month High, Viewership Up

Last week’s episode of WWE NXT saw its rating jump to the highest point in nearly a year, with the viewership also up. The August 18th episode brought in a 0.14 rating in the 18 – 49 demographic and 683,000 viewers per Wrestlenomics. These numbers do not include ESPN Unlimited viewers.

Those numbers are up 55.6% and 16.2% respectively from the previous week’s 0.09 demo rating and audience of 588,000. The demo rating was the best for the show since the September 16th, 2025 episode had a 0.17, and the total audience was highest since the July 21st episode had 690,000.

As a reminder, Nielsen made an adjustment to its Big Data + Panel numbers in late January, and even the original Big Data + Panel ratings makes ratings difficult to compare to pre-change weeks. That said, WWE NXT is averaging a 0.086 demo rating and 606,000 viewers in 2026 compared to a 0.162 and 709,000 for the same time period in 2025.